From Publishers WeeklyWhen Sankovitch lost her older sister to cancer, she was determined to "live her life double" in order to make up for her family's painful loss. But after thr...
SUMMARY: From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture ...
Review"What's nice about these recipes is that they're simple to cook and grownups like them, too. Except picky ones." NY Daily News, April 4, 2008 "Finally, there's a...
Caldwell's bestselling, controversial classic: the story of a Southern sharecropper family ground down by the devastation of the Great Depression Even before the Great Depression s...
Limpy's family reckons humans don't hate cane toads, but Limpy knows otherwise. He's spotted the signs: the cross looks, the unkind comments, the way they squash cane toads with th...
In the hysterically funny sequel to <i>Toad Rage</i>, Limpy is on a quest to find toad heaven. A place where cane toads won't be blown up with bike pumps or bashed over the head wi...
Limpy the toad has a vision. A world where cane toads and humans play mudslides together and help each other with the shopping. But how does a young cane toad discover the ancient ...
Product Description"Travel writing at its best."THE HOUSTON POSTAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascin...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. œThe mountain path is the road of the dead, writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that tran...